![]() Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season." Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. ![]() ![]() "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Postįrom the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community. “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” – The New York Times Book Review ![]()
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